 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pàgines
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pàgines
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. ****** By this, though deep the evening fell, Still rose the battle's deadly... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 pàgines
...Field," the like order is systematically employed with great effect : The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging...are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It waver'd 'mid the foea. 572. (3) Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest effect,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pàgines
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could 'near : " By Heaven, and all its saints ', I... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pàgines
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 30 The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; 35 As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pàgines
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. The Border Slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...— forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sank and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pàgines
...With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle-yell. 30 The Border slogan rent the sky. A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging...Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it lost... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pàgines
...flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. The Border slogan rent the sky! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry; Loud were the clanging...gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : — " By heaven, and all its saints, I... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1865 - 424 pàgines
...interleaved copy of the edition of 1830.] 2 [MS. — " Though there the dauntless mountaineer."] II [MS. — " Fell stainless Tunstall's banner white,...'mid the foes. No longer Blount the view could bear : " By Heaven, and all its saints ! I swear I will not see it lost ! Fitz-Eustace, you with Lady Clare1... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 400 pàgines
..." The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry ; Loud were the clanging hlows : Advanced,— 'forced back, — now low, now high,...the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shronds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that... | |
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The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail,... 
